412 APPENDIX. 1 amongst the last, if not the last, to return from behind ' the guns.' * 8. Lieutenant George Johnston t of the 13th Hussars says : ' As to the opinion that we ought to have re-formed, ' &c, why, sir, there were none to form, had it been pos- ' sible. Instance in my own regiment. We turned out ' 112 of all ranks, and lost 84 horses ; in fact, there were ' only 10 of us assembled on the spot from whence we ' charged. "We had 26 men wounded, 13 taken prisoners, 'and 12 killed; consequently all the generals in the ' Crimea would have been puzzled how to re-form us.' NOTE V. Record of Military Services op General William Ferguson Beatson. Entered the Bengal Army in 1820. Being on furlough, he, with sanction of the British Government, served with the Britisli Legion in Spain, in 1835-36, first as Major, afterwards as Lieutenant-Colonel, commanding a regiment, at the head of which he was severely wounded. For services in Spain received Cross of San Fernando from Queen of Spain ; and Her Britannic Majesty's per- mission to wear it, September 12, 1837. Returned to India in 1837, and received thanks of Government of India for capture of Jignee, in Bundelkund, in 1840 ; and of Chirgong in 1841.
- General Scarlett afterwards explained that he meant among tho
' lust of the first lino which he [Lord Cardigan] commanded in person.' - Letter to Colonel Calthorpe, 1st May 1863. t Lord Cardigan should have written this 'Thomas George Johnson.
